Stash2Go Lite

Actually came back and dropped a star because of the ridiculous response from the developer. We all get that it’s ad based, I wasn’t complaining about that. I was complaining that the ads are screening up the UI AND UX enough so that I’d rather just use the web version of Ravelry. Ugh. Like others I’m having issues with the ads. The app already had some struggles from the layout and the UI, but the new problem is video ads are now taking over my entire screen and I can’t get out of them without restarting the app. Same thing with accessing the PDFs and other options that pop up at the bottom of the screen, covered by apps. I get it you want to make money but this is ridiculous. I was using this to gauge my interest in the $4.99 version and frankly I’ll be looking for something else based on this experience.

I mostly use this app to for the row counter. I also search for patterns and upload photos to projects. These functions all work well, except for the loud video ads that play unexpectedly, and don’t have a way to mute or close them because the X is obscured. Sometimes this means I can’t get back into the patterns and have to close and reopen the app to start over. The ads have woken up kids because of this stupid app, which means cranky family and less sleep for me.

This app COULD be so cool. When it works, it’s useful and fun, BUT..... it takes forever to respond, routinely freezes for no apparent reason, and crashes completely every 15 minutes. Seems like the designers’ goal is to reliably load ads (some of which blatantly obscure content), rather than reliably load Ravelry pages.....I keep hoping it will get better but, after months of frustrating user experience, I have lost my interest in ever paying to upgrade. How can the designers not be mortified by this poor level of performance for so long? I understand the need for ads but not when they interfere with basic functions. It’s ridiculous that they won’t fix this.....